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BRITISH EMPIRE AT WAR

forts were concerned; but they could not be immediately supplied with clothing or equipment. The first increase of the Army by half a million was sanctioned by Parliament in August 1914. This increase was quickly followed by others, until, in December 1915, the sanctioning of another million raised the total authorized land forces to 4,000,000 men. These numbers are exclusive of the forces of the Indian Empire and Overseas Dominions. Voluntary enlistment continued, with rises and falls (the numbers always increasing after a Zeppelin raid), until January 1916, when the first Military Service Act was passed.

The British people are not imaginative; but in the spring of 1916 it

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